"Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts."

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Source : Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “South Moon Under”, p.70, Booklassic

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#Grieving Quotes #Wind Quotes #Sorrow Quotes

“Everything is about color. If you look at magazines and advertising and television, the thing you remember is the color.”
“I always respect a woman.”
“In such sad circumstances I but see myself exalted by my own enemies, for in order to defeat some small works of mine they try to make the whole rational medicine and anatomy fall, as if I were myself these noble disciplines.”
“Call me anything you like, but don't call me a lady.”
“You know what I'm not going to do I'm not going to tell you every move I'm going to make. This isn't a reality TV show. Some things are just best left unsaid. I'll handle the club the way I deem is necessary. They just need to play.”
“If we could only use other folks' experience, this here world would be heaven in about three generations, but we're so constructed that we never believe fire'll burn till we poke our own fingers into it to see. Other folks' scars don't go no ways at all toward convincin' us.”
“Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing's changed.”
“Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.”

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